Famous quotes containing the word providence:
“I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.”
—Adolf Hitler (18891945)
“What is Providence for you may be Nemesis for me.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“A sure proportion of rogue and dunce finds its way into every school and requires a cruel share of time, and the gentle teacher, who wished to be a Providence to youth, is grown a martinet, sore with suspicions; knows as much vice as the judge of a police court, and his love of learning is lost in the routine of grammars and books of elements.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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